Mobile Penetration Testing
Mobile applications extend your attack surface beyond the data center. Weak authentication, insecure storage, and flawed code can put sensitive data and backend systems at risk. Packetlabs, a trusted expert in Mobile Penetration Testing, is ready to thoroughly evaluate your app end-to-end; client, network, and server-side components, using 95% manual testing techniques to simulate real-world adversaries. So instead of waiting for attackers to exploit gaps, you'll gain validated insights into risk and a prioritized roadmap to secure your apps, protect customer/client trust, and strengthen compliance.
Your three-step path to secured mobile apps:
1. Scope In-Depth: We examine every layer, including applications, network communications, and backend systems, where sensitive data is stored, transmitted, or processed. 2. Discover & Validate Vulnerabilities: We identify and safely exploit flaws that attackers target most: insecure storage, weak authentication, vulnerable code, and misconfigured controls. 3. Deliver Board-Ready Reports: Findings are translated into a clear, prioritized plan for both executives and developers, closing gaps quickly and proving progress to stakeholders. More than a test: verified security for safer user experiences.
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Your three-step path to secured mobile apps:
1. Scope In-Depth: We examine every layer, including applications, network communications, and backend systems, where sensitive data is stored, transmitted, or processed. 2. Discover & Validate Vulnerabilities: We identify and safely exploit flaws that attackers target most: insecure storage, weak authentication, vulnerable code, and misconfigured controls. 3. Deliver Board-Ready Reports: Findings are translated into a clear, prioritized plan for both executives and developers, closing gaps quickly and proving progress to stakeholders. More than a test: verified security for safer user experiences.
Service Highlights
Beyond OWASP. Advanced Coverage.
We don’t stop at the OWASP Mobile Top 10. Our assessments go deeper, validating encryption, secure coding practices, API calls, and business logic flaws that compliance checklists overlook. Why it matters: Not every vulnerability is equal. Threat modeling ensures remediation efforts protect what matters most, improving risk reduction and optimizing security budgets.
Our Uncompromising Standards.
100% Tester-Driven Security
Packetlabs is made up of over 30 OSCP-minimum ethical hackers. By partnering with Packetlabs, government organizations can identify vulnerabilities faster, generate actionable results, ensure regulatory compliance, and scale their security operations to stay ahead of threat actors.
Demonstrated Organizational Impact
When vulnerabilities are explained through real-world impact scenarios—such as how an attacker could exploit a flaw to steal sensitive data or disrupt operations—it creates urgency and clarity around why remediation matters. This increases executive buy-in for allocating budget and resources, making it easier to prioritize and resolve issues quickly.
Strategic Recommendations
Root-cause analysis prevents teams from wasting resources repeatedly fixing symptoms instead of addressing the core issue. Tactical guidance ensures quick wins, while strategic insight streamlines future processes and tooling. Over time, this approach reduces technical debt, accelerates release cycles, and optimizes security budgets.
Stronger Protection of Data in Transit
Secure certificate handling ensures that communications between your mobile app, backend systems, and third-party services are properly encrypted and trusted. By preventing attackers from exploiting weak or misconfigured certificates, organizations protect sensitive customer information, reduce the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks, and maintain compliance with privacy regulations.
Why Invest in Mobile Penetration Testing?
Improved Compliance and Audit Readiness
Regulatory frameworks like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR increasingly expect organizations to secure not only their code but also the ecosystem of dependencies, release configurations, and certificates. Demonstrating thorough testing across these areas helps organizations pass compliance audits more smoothly, avoid fines, and provide clear evidence of due diligence to customers and regulators.
Cost Savings Via Early Risk Elimination
Catching misconfigurations, insecure certificates, or vulnerable libraries before an app is released is significantly less expensive than remediating issues after they’ve been exploited. Testing reduces the financial burden of reactive incident response, helps avoid reputational damage, and ensures your app lifecycle remains efficient and secure.
Support Secure Development (and Faster Releases)
Penetration testing provides developers with concrete, validated proof-of-concept scenarios and remediation guidance. This not only helps fix issues but also trains teams to avoid repeating the same mistakes in future builds. Over time, this accelerates secure development cycles and reduces long-term maintenance costs.
Safeguard Against Supply Chain Risks
Many mobile applications depend on third-party SDKs, libraries, and plugins. These external components can introduce hidden vulnerabilities or malicious code. Mobile pen testing examines these dependencies, ensuring you’re not unintentionally introducing risk through your supply chain.
Resources
Pentest Sourcing Guide
Download our Pentest Sourcing Guide to learn everything you need to know to successfully plan, scope, and execute your penetration testing projects.
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